Shawarma
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Shawarma is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in Brooklyn. Spit-roasted meat shaved into flatbread with pickles and garlic sauce. Start with where to eat Shawarma in Brooklyn.

Shawarma · Brooklyn

Spit-roasted meat shaved into flatbread with pickles and garlic sauce. Karam's counter on 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, sells it as a sandwich.

Shawarma is a street food of the Levant that originated during the Ottoman Empire: meat stacked in an inverted cone and roasted on a slow-turning vertical spit, then shaved off. The name comes from the Turkish word for turning. Bay Ridge is the largest Arab-American community in New York City, and its ethnic restaurants line Third and Fifth avenues. Karam turns shawarma on the spit by the door and rolls a Lebanese-style sandwich of beef and lamb shawarma in flatbread with pickles and garlic sauce.

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